제니퍼 이건의 『폭력단의 방문』에 나타난 9/11과 포스트모던적 구원

• 영문명: 9/11 and Postmodern Redemption in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad
• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: 진주영(Ju Young Jin)
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제53집 1호, 157~187쪽, 전체 31쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2021.05.31

영문 초록

This paper analyzes Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Good Squad, the pathbreaking 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner known for its innovative narrative devices. Taking a cue from its valorization of gaps and pauses in Rock’N’Roll songs as well as in one’s life, this essay takes aim at pronouncements of postmodern redemption thematized in Egan’s narrative. I show how the pervasive tropes of pauses and gaps conceptualize redemptive notion of time, prompting the reader to reconstruct the fractured past of the main characters whose convalescence overlaps with that of the post 9/11 US. In the context of the spectacular violence of 9/11, I construe the fear of “end” frequently featured in the novel as a corollary for America’s fascination with its own demise. I argue that the discursive displacement of that fear onto the fear of becoming a “has—been” in music industry highlighted in the novel indexes the impress of the postmodern anxiety about being a latecomer. I then draw upon Rita Felski’s idea of “attachment” to contemplate upon the unexpected agency and solidarity that the novel activates in its last chapter, which transcends divisive identity politics in the post 9/11 US.

목차

Ⅰ. 들어가며

Ⅱ. A에서 B까지: 로큰롤, 9/11과 쉼표

Ⅲ. 포스트 9/11과 공감의 공동체

Ⅳ. 나가며

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키워드

제니퍼 이건 폭력단의 방문 포스트모던적 구원 9/11 애착 Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad Postmodern redemption 9/11 Attachment